Photo: Jazz at Lincoln Center A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration: 50 Years and Counting Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Elmo, Abby, Big Bird, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Rosita, ...

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the Challenger space shuttle, but apparently, he nearly went up in smoke while ...

That's what he decides on the "Sesame Street" season opener. A rapping real-estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat ("habitat," the episode's "Word on the Street"). After sizing up a ...

Imagine, for a moment, a world without "Sesame Street." Young children would become less proficient spellers, counters and performers of musical odes to rubber duckies. Disposable diapers would be ...